A Race for Life
1928 film
- January 28, 1928 (1928-01-28)
Running time
(English Intertitles)
A Race for Life is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by D. Ross Lederman.[2] While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-disc Vitaphone process. Originally, the film was presumed to be lost.[3] However, according to the Library of Congress Database, the film was found in the Netherlands.[4][5] The film was released with a Vitaphone soundtrack with a synchronised musical score and sound effects.
Cast
- Rin Tin Tin as Rinty, a dog
- Virginia Brown Faire as Virginia Calhoun
- Carroll Nye as Robert Hammond
- Robert Gordon as Danny O'Shea (as Bobby Gordon)
- Jim Mason as Bruce Morgan (as James Mason)
- Pat Hartigan as Tramp
Box office
According to Warner Bros.' records the film earned $168,000 domestically and $75,000 foreign.[1]
Preservation status
A print is preserved at Filmmuseum in the Netherlands, at the EYE Film Institute.[6]
See also
- List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
References
- ^ a b c Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 6 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
- ^ Hal Erickson (2014). "A Race for Life". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 8, 2014. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
- ^ A Race for Life at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Warner Brothers films - 1928 Archived December 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine (the film exists in Netherlands)
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: A Race for Life at silentera.com
- ^ "A Race for Life". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
- ^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: A Race for Life
External links
- A Race for Life at IMDb
- A Race for Life at AllMovie
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Films directed by D. Ross Lederman
- Sheiks in Bagdad (1925) (Short)
- A Dog of the Regiment (1927)
- A Race for Life (1928)
- Rinty of the Desert (1928)
- Shadows of the Night (1928)
- The Million Dollar Collar (1929)
- The Man Hunter (1930)
- The Phantom of the West (1931)
- The Texas Ranger (1931)
- Branded (1931)
- The Fighting Marshal (1931)
- The Range Feud (1931)
- Ridin' for Justice (1932)
- Texas Cyclone (1932)
- High Speed (1932)
- The Riding Tornado (1932)
- Two-Fisted Law (1932)
- Daring Danger (1932)
- McKenna of the Mounted (1932)
- Speed Demon (1932)
- End of the Trail (1932)
- State Trooper (1933)
- Silent Men (1933)
- Soldiers of the Storm (1933)
- The Whirlwind (1933)
- Rusty Rides Alone (1933)
- The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934)
- Hell Bent for Love (1934)
- A Man's Game (1934)
- Beyond the Law (1934)
- Girl in Danger (1934)
- Murder in the Clouds (1934)
- Red Hot Tires (1935)
- Dinky (1935)
- The Case of the Missing Man (1935)
- Moonlight on the Prairie (1935)
- Too Tough to Kill (1935)
- Hell-Ship Morgan (1936)
- Pride of the Marines (1936)
- Panic on the Air (1936)
- The Final Hour (1936)
- Alibi for Murder (1936)
- Come Closer, Folks (1936)
- Counterfeit Lady (1936)
- Motor Madness (1937)
- I Promise to Pay (1937)
- The Frame-Up (1937)
- A Dangerous Adventure (1937)
- The Game That Kills (1937)
- Tarzan's Revenge (1938)
- Juvenile Court (1938)
- Adventure in Sahara (1938)
- The Little Adventuress (1938)
- North of Shanghai (1939)
- Racketeers of the Range (1939)
- Military Academy (1940)
- Glamour for Sale (1940)
- Thundering Frontier (1940)
- Father's Son (1941)
- Across the Sierras (1941)
- Shadows on the Stairs (1941)
- Strange Alibi (1941)
- Here Comes the Cavalry (1941) (Short)
- Passage from Hong Kong (1941)
- The Body Disappears (1941)
- Bullet Scars (1942)
- I Was Framed (1942)
- Escape from Crime (1942)
- Busses Roar (1942)
- The Gorilla Man (1943)
- Adventure in Iraq (1943)
- Find the Blackmailer (1943)
- Gun to Gun (1944) (Short)
- The Racket Man (1944)
- Three of a Kind (1944)
- The Last Ride (1944)
- Navy Nurse (1945) (Short)
- Out of the Depths (1945)
- The Notorious Lone Wolf (1946)
- The Phantom Thief (1946)
- Dangerous Business (1946)
- Sing While You Dance (1946)
- Boston Blackie and the Law (1946)
- The Lone Wolf in Mexico (1947)
- Key Witness (1947)
- The Return of the Whistler (1948)
- Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang (1950)